Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University, has spent twenty years observing classrooms in pursuit of effective teaching (mostly in K12 classrooms). He has concluded that…
Category: Motivation
The Peak-End Rule
In 1993 an interesting study run by Daniel Kahneman and other researchers investigated discomfort. Participants submerged one hand in water at 14°C (57.2°F) for sixty seconds and rated the discomfort….
Cognitive Intrigue
In The Importance of Average: Playing the Game of School to Increase Success and Achievement by Stephen Farenga et al., one of the authors tells a story about a birthday party his five year old son…
Open Pedagogy – Increased student motivation and learning (and less work for you!)
We are in a perfect storm. The confluence of Open Education Week, a pivot to a new LMS, and FLCC’s commitment to free and low-cost materials (backed by financial incentives for…
Heutagogy, Generative Learning, and Drive
In 2009, Daniel Pink wrote Drive – a book that interrogated what we know about motivation and challenged the world with a reframing of what makes us tick. In 1949,…